Sentences with phrase «past year challenging»

To call this past year challenging for the PSAC would be an understatement that our members would shake their heads at.

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This will be the company's significant challenge going forward, with its new slate of C - suite executives, and as it grows past 100 employees this next year.

Through all of the successes and challenges of the past year, Dan has never once put himself first,» read the post, which includes a video of Price accepting the surprise gift.

Over the past 8 years, more than 100,000 people from over 100 countries have participated in Google's Online Marketing Challenge.

Recognize your sales team might be tired or somewhat challenged based upon the past few years of tight budgets and stress.

Because in the past few years, a competitor has arrived to challenge Google in terms of advertising value.

Specifically, it's always a good idea to review what worked, what didn't work and why, and think about what you will do in the upcoming year to learn from past challenges and build future strengths.

The Marketing Director at Braintree, the fast - growing payments platform, Leyden is a technology and fintech marketing pro who, over the past year, has also taken on the challenge of establishing marketing at Venmo, the peer to peer payments platform, where she is working on brand positioning and marketing.

Qualcomm's contention that the chipmaker's future is brighter as a standalone company has become a tougher sell, given the multiple challenges that have cropped up in the past two years.

Over the past few years we have faced some unprecedented economic challenges and we surmounted.»

This year, Kent declined a $ 2.5 million bonus, calling the past year at Coke «challenging.»

Some of Pershing's challenges over the past three years included a $ 4 billion loss on its stake in Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

As for «challenged,» CNN just finished its second highest rated first quarter in the past nine years.

As for this past year, a challenge with skyrocketing growth is that «you only fix the thing that is broken in front of you that moment,» she said.

The growing, multibillion - dollar fantasy sports industry dominated by DraftKings and FanDuel has drawn increased attention from state regulators over the past year, with the attorneys general of New York, Illinois and Nevada challenging their legality.

The ice bucket challenge has raised more than $ 22 million over the past three weeks, compared to $ 1.9 million during the same period last year.

«With the modest economic recovery of the past few years, finance functions are preparing the enterprise for challenges that could materialize at any time by working to preserve margins and by sustaining a strong focus on working capital management,» said a Protiviti managing director in a release.

The past year has had its share of stressful moments, however, and Murphy and Ryan are both frank about the challenges facing businesses in their Alberta home.

If Amazon wants to recruit and retain the best talent, Denver is the optimal place for them because of the growth of our young, motivated, and educated workforce that has been drawn to the city over the past few years... [I] f Amazon decides to make Denver their home for HQ2, it will be challenging to go head to head with them from a recruiting perspective.

«Today's proposal, along with past regulatory actions, will make it challenging for banks to meet the needs of the estimated 50 million consumers who access a variety of bank and nonbank small - dollar lending products each year,» said Virginia O'Neill, senior vice president of the American Bankers Association's Center for Regulatory Compliance, in a statement.

But the weird thing was that, over the past year, I'd been more or less following my interests, and taking projects that inspired and challenged me — while still being able to take care of the bills.

The value of the second - largest cryptocurrency in circulation is around $ 72 billion, challenging bitcoin in the past year.

But for the past several years, the Gigafactory 2's development has run into a series of project delays, automation challenges, and budget overruns, according to people familiar with the matter.

I don't have to tell you that the Canadian economy has faced its share of challenges these past few years.

Over the past few years, countries such as China, Russia, Iran, and Brazile, Russia, India, and China, and South Africa (the BRICS nations) have begun to pose a challenge to the current system, forming pacts to transact oil in local currencies, bypassing the petro - dollar.

As challenging as the «two data sets» uncertainty has been over the past year, this is not uncertainty that will persist indefinitely.

«We have heard a great deal over the past couple years that there are funding challenges,» said Rose.

The report was developed over the past year, after the Greater Vancouver Economic Scorecard 2016 revealed that affordability is one of the biggest challenges facing our region's economy.

One of the challenges pointed out by many is the fact that the 60/40 portfolio has been juiced over the past 30 + years by the seemingly never - ending bond bull market.

Asked how far out he reckons graphene is from finding its way into real world electronics, he added: «While considerable challenges still exist, some great steps forward have been made over the past year or so and I expect high - tech applications of graphene in consumer technologies to appear in the general market within the next 2 - 3 years.

«Yahoo has faced several challenges in the past couple of years and decided to pull out of the (Korean) business to put more resources on global business and become more powerful and successful,» Yahoo said in a statement.

The speech concludes that the nature of, and challenges along, the path to prosperity that the Australian economy has taken in the past six years are not much different to those faced when they were considered six years ago.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

For the past year, Olive Garden has been working on strengthening their value leadership competitive advantage by improving affordability for their more economically challenged guests and on updating and evolving key elements of the guest experience to meet the increasing quality expectations of all of guests, especially more economically stable guests.

Despite serious challenges facing British Columbia, the Liberal government under Premier Christy Clark has spent a significant portion of the past year campaigning instead of governing, spending valuable public resources on pre-election advertising and staging photo - ops instead of doing the hard work of actually governing.

So an «upside - down out of the gates» January is more than inauspicious — it's an outright «non-starter» for risk managers in light of the performance - challenged era of the past few years.

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The term sheet innovation that we believe best solves some of the challenges angels have been having over the past five years is the Exchangeable Share.

«On the whole, it's been a pretty good story for them considering the challenges in the markets everyone has faced in the past five years,» McGorman said.

One of the toughest challenges in the past few years has been to figure out how to respond to these changes.

Nimblest Banks Benefit Banks that embraced the full gamut of challenges during the crisis and still emerged in flexible enough shape to keep rolling out new products have grown their market share substantially over the past year and a half.

«It's been one of the many challenges I've encountered in the past two years, along with being a first timer with no connections, as well as fighting for my artist visa and getting the script in the right hands.»

For the past seven years, the government's growth and jobs strategy has been based entirely on events and policy challenges beyond its control.

Admittedly, the band has faced challenges with the extensive touring schedule they've maintained over the past few years.

If I've learned anything over the past few years it's been that when the rains come down and the floods come up, when doubt and frustration whip like wind against my faith, all the apologetics in the world can't ground me like the simple, yet profoundly challenging teachings of Jesus Christ.

It is just that some of the things I have read and learned in the past several years have challenged what I was taught.

The Holy Father set in motion these past two years of contention and, one hopes, constructive dialogue in the Church because he knows that marriage and the family are in deep trouble throughout the world, just as he knows that marriage, rightly understood, and the family, rightly understood, are the basic building blocks of a humane society: the family is the first school of freedom, because it is there that we first learn that freedom is not mere willfulness; marriage, for its part, is the lifelong school in which we learn the full, challenging meaning of the law of self - giving built into the human heart.

For the past couple of years, plaintiffs in France have brought challenges against the display of Christmas crèches on public property.

Jeremy has shown me over the past couple of years how to challenge my existing belief system arising from (as Neville describes as) «moral / legal covenant interpretation of the gospel».

Bringing stability has been the biggest challenge for these past years.